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Nuts are high in fat and come from trees, grains (grass seeds) are high in starch, inedible unless cooked or sprouted. Legumes (pulses) are generally starch, but can be high in fat (peanuts), also inedible unless cooked or sprouted. Only grass seeds are grains in my opinion, so throw in corn. The rest are bird food, edible for most animals.

They make flour out of all of them, but without wheat and gluten you get little or no rise.

I used to be a pretty good baker, but I don't eat wheat anymore.

Posted by: Greg | Jun 23, 2014 10:37:05 PM

Apparently with a sufficiently lax definition of "grain", anything can be a grain!

(Soybeans, however, *are* traditionally a grain, for the reason that Avogadro mentioned).

Let me tell you about my seven-grain banana bread. It contains the following grains: